Elachista subocellea (Stephens, 1834)

Aphelosetia subocellea Stephens, 1834: 290 . Type locality: England, Surrey, Ripley (Stephens 1834: 290). Holotype ♂, in NHMUK.

Elachista subocellea: Stainton (1858a: 318) .

Poeciloptilia disertella Herrich-Schäffer, 1855: 302, 311. Type locality: syntypes from Germany, Regensburg; Austria, Wien (Herrich-Schäffer 1855: 302, 311). Type material not located. Synonymy indicated at least by Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977). See remarks.

Elachista subcollutella Toll, 1936: 409 . Type locality: Poland, Podolien, Ubierzowa, Kreis Zaleszczyki (Toll 1936: 409). Holotype ♂, in ISZP. Synonymized by Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977: 106).

Elachista disertella: Frey (1856: 299) .

‡ Elachista subocella; misspelling (Vives Moreno 2014: 123).

Subgenus: Aphelosetia; argentella species group.

Distribution: Palearctic. Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia (European part, Caucasus, Siberia), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K. (England, Wales), Ukraine.

Larval host plant(s): Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) Beauv., B. sylvaticum (Hudson) Beauv. (Poaceae) (Frey 1866; Huttunen 1980).

Figs.: Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen (1977), Biesenbaum (1995), Bland (1996); Parenti & Pizzolato (2015a) (holotype of E. subcollutella Toll).

Remarks: The identity of E. disertella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855) has been considered ambiguous; e.g., Traugott- Olsen (1996c) considered E. nolckeni Šulcs, 1992 to be a synonym of E. disertella . The original painting in Herrich-Schäffer (1855) is detailed enough to show that E. disertella is a junior subjective synonym of E. subocellea, as has been the prevailing concept (e.g., Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen 1977; Burmann 1993; Leraut 1997; Kaila 1999a; Parenti & Pizzolato 2015a). Baran (2002) gave detailed images with which E. nolckeni and E. subocellea can be distinguished by wing pattern.